Corn-husker.



- UNITED STATES-&

PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLF STAHL, OF SWEET HOME, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES SENGELMANN AND GUSTAV SENGELMANN, OF SCHULEN- BURG, TEXAS.

SPEUIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,881, dated Ai1gust 29, 1899.

Application filed April 11, 1899.

T0 all wwm 7125 may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLF STAHL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Sweet Home, Lavaca county, State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Huskers; and my preferred manner of carrying out the invention is set forth in the following full, clear, and exact description, terminating With claims particularly specifying the novelty.

This invention relates to that class of devices known as corn-huskers, and the object of the same is to produce certain improvements therein.

To this end the invention consists in the details of construction set forth in the mochanism described below and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of this machine complete. Fig. 2 is a perspective detail of the guide and its stop. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail of the knife and its guard. Fig. 4: is a detail of another form of the guide and its stop.

Referring to the said drawings, the letterA designates a base monnted on suitable supports, such as legs B, and 0 is a standard rising from the base near one end and forming a' fulcrum for the lever D, which latter has a straight body bent at an angle at its pivotal point in said fulcrum into a counterbalancearm E, receiving a weight F, adjustable thereon by means of a set-screw G. The straight body of this lever D extends through a guide, hereinafter described, and carries a handpiece H at its farther end.

Perhaps the cheapest form ofguide (shown in Fig. 2) cgnsists of a fiat plate 1, secured as by screws upon the base A, and a fiat strap K, cast integral With the plate rising therefrom and having a longitudinal slot closed at its upper end, as at L. Against the faces of said strap slide the two members of a stop 0, which are connected by a screw P passing throngh said slot in the strap, and af:ter adjnsting this stop vertically to the desired position the screw is tightened.

Another form of this guide which I may sometimes employ is seen in Fig. 4. Said guide comprises a plate I, secured upon the fiat upper face of the base A and provided with a central slot J, a guide K, consisting of bral No. 712,601. (No model.)

the lever can rise only to the bend L and can descend only until it strikes the stop 0.

The letter Q desgnates a multi-faced knife, as of disk shape, pivoted at its center at B on a bolt which passes through a downward bend S of the lever D and itself provided in its body With a number of holes T, equidistant from the center R and from each other. Through two of these holes pass fastenngbolts U, which also pass through the lever D, where the latter is bifurcated for the reception of the knife, by which means the latter may be adjusted With any one of its many faces downward.

V is a rest mounted upon the base A and having its upper face curved or shaped to conform With the operative or lowermost face of the knife.

W is a guard comprising two faces connected at their curved upper edges and provided at their lower edges with ears X, adapted t0 stand on opposite sides of the knife and provided with perforations therein, and a bolt Y, which passes through the upper most hole T in the knife blade. By this means the guard is detachably connected with the knife in such manner that t Will cover the upper and exposed surface thereof while its ears pass downward into the openings at the upper sicle of the downward bend S in the lever D.

In use the knife is cOnnected With the lever at U in such manner that the sharp lower face thereof is downward, and the guard W is attached to this knife in such manner as to protect its upper edge to prevent the operator from being inj ured thereon. The ear of corn with its husk thereon is then passed over the base A and borne against the rest V. The hand-piece H of the lever is then depressed, which causes the knife to descend through the husk except at the lower side, and this motion cuts the car from its stem and severs the husk at all points cxcept the bottom. The hand piece H is then released, when the weight F causes the knife t0 rise. The ear of corn is then removed from position and the corn proper is withdrawn from the severed husk, the latter being thrown aside and the former passes into a receptacle for future use.

the operator from injnry.

All parts are of the desired sizes, shapes, proportions, and materials, and snob changes in the details of construction can be made as do not depart from the spirit of my invention.

VVhat is claimed as new is- 1. In a corn-husker, the combination with a base, and upon it a standard, 21. guide, and a rest With a dished upper face; of alever pivoted to the standard and moving in the guide, a disk-shaped knife centrally pivoted to said lever and having a series of holes in its body, a guard removably covering the top of the knife, and a boit through the guard and the nppermost of sad holes, as and for the pnrpose set forth.

2. In a corn-hnsker, the combination with a base, and npon it a standard, and a rest with a dished upper face; of a. lever pivoted to the standard and having a slotted body, a disk-shaped'knife centrally pivoted in said slot and having a series of holes in its body equidistant from each other and from the center, fasteningbo1ts removably passing throngh certain of said holes and the lever, and a gnard covering the knife above the lever and attached by another hole therein, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a corn-husker, the combinaton With a base, a standard thereon, a slotted guide also thereon, and a removable stop near the lower end of its slot; of a lever extending throngh both the standard and guide, a weight adjnstable on the end outside the former, a

-handpiece on the end outside the latter, a

multi-iaced disk-shaped kn-ife pivoted to the lever betWeen the standard and guide and of such diameter that it never actually contacts with said base, and means for locking said knife in various positions with dfterent faces downward, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a corn-hnsker the combination with the base having a standard, and a lever pivoted therein and having a slotted body with a downward bendcoincident therewith; of a disk-shaped knife standing in the slot and centrally pivoted in said downward bond, its body having a series of holes, a pair of fastening-bolts throngh two of these holes and the lever, a gnard covering the edge and both faces of the knife where it projects above the lever and provided with depending perforated side cars, and an attaching-bolt through the perforations and another hole in the knife, ail substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a cornhusker, the combination with a base, a lever pivotally supported therefrom, a disk-shaped knife, pivotal connections between the lever and knife so that less than one-half of the latter stands above the former, and a gnard covering the upper edge; of a guide comprising a plate secured to the base, a strap rising therefrom and having a slot closed at its upper end, and a stop extending through the slot and adapted to limit the de- AD OLF' STA HL.

YVitnesscs:

G. EILERS, C, F. ,'KAISER. 

